Metadata: State primary school of Bîrsana
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale. Direcţia judeţeană Maramureş
- Postal address:
- Bulevardul Bucureşti 26, Baia Mare 430052, judeţul Maramureş
- Phone number:
- 0262-437948
- Email:
- maramures.an@mai.gov.ro
- Reference number:
- Fond 600
- Title:
- State primary school of Bîrsana
- Title (official language):
- Şcoala primară de stat Bîrsana
- Creator/accumulator:
- State primary school of Bîrsana
- Date(s):
- 1901/1948
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 0.15 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds comprises the registers and catalogues of the state primary school from Bîrsana from 1901 to 1948. The annual registers include for each student their name, birth date and birth place, their ethnic origin and religious affiliation, the name, residence and profession of their parents and their results in school subjects, including the final result of every grade. The catalogues record the presence of every student and their marks for every day of the academic year. The students are mostly Romanian, but the considerable local Jewish community also sent most of their children to the state primary school both under the Hungarian administration until the First World War and in the interwar period under the Romanian regime. Access for Jewish schoolchildren was limited from 1940 first by the laws issued by the Romanian Gigurtu government (numerus clausus of 6%) and then by the Hungarian administration between 1940 and 1944 (numerus clausus of 3%). Because of the Holocaust, the number of Jewish schoolchildren is very much reduced after 1945.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was held by the primary school of Bîrsana before it was transferred to the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives, where it was inventoried and made accessible to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The state primary school of Bîrsana was established in the second half of the 19th century in accordance with the legislation issued by the Hungarian parliament and government. The law of 1907 named after the secretary of education Albert Apponyi imposed Hungarian as the language of instruction, linking the payment of the teachers by the state to their adhering to the programme of studies in Hungarian as prescribed by the government. Under the Romanian administration after the First World War primary education was organised based on the law issued in 1924 by secretary Constantin Anghelescu, which made Romanian the teaching language. Between 1940 and 1944, when Northern Transylvania was under Hungarian rule again, teaching was once again in Hungarian, while the inter-war model was valid from 1945 to 1948, when the new Communist regime introduced a reform of the entire educational system.
- Access points: locations:
- Bîrsana
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- System of arrangement:
- The registers are arranged chronologically, with the students’ names in alphabetical order within.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 1192, held by the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Levente Tóth (archivist, Protestant Theological Institute Cluj), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor), 2018
